Democracy and Its Critics: Anglo-American Democratic Thought in the Nineteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0044451296
- ISBN-13
- 9780044451297
- Series
- Democracy and Its Critics
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Australia
- Author
- Jon Roper
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